Suicide Attacks Kill 12 in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan officials say two suicide attackers have blown themselves up near a NATO base in the country's east, killing at least 12 people and wounding more than 50.

Shahidullah Shadid, a spokesman for the Wardak provincial governor, says the attack took place at dawn Saturday in the province's Sayed Abad district.

He says one suicide bomber with a vest rigged with explosives blew himself up outside a compound housing the district governor's office, while another in a fuel tanker detonated his bomb on a road separating the compound from a NATO base.

Shahid says the dead include eight civilians and four Afghan police. He says no NATO troops were killed, but two were lightly wounded.